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• EU directive Black boxes SOS from april 2018 1 May 2015 (Forum)
  of trivial callouts. Hacking will allow criminals to track you and aid home burgulary. Intended consequences? With gps and mobile comms, tracking of all vehicles is now a piece of cake, allowing automatic fine/penalty point issuance for minor speeding, parking offences etc. Selling of data
• Unknown car registered for our address 19 Dec 2014 (Forum)
  . What a pain! I am worried that speeding tickets, parking fines and other official documents will start coming our way.
• Land Rover Discovery 1; 3.5; V8 Auto 1992 K Reg - Starting Problem 1 Feb 2014 (Forum)
  Hi - looking for and tips as to what may have prevented starting. Car working fine, battery charged and cables tight. Parked up but on return a few minutes later failed to start when key turned
• BMW Z3 - EML & Traction Control warning lights 19 Feb 2012 (Forum)
  Help!!  My 2000 2.0l BMW Z3 has been running perfectly since I bought it.  The other day I drove it for half an hour and parked up for 2 hours.  Everything was fine until I started the car and the EML and traction control lights came on (yellow) simultaneously.  The car also
• Ford Focus (1998 - 2004) - 03 1.8 Zetec TDCi - Oil Light 6 Apr 2009 (Forum)
  My focus has started flashing the oil warning light. No problem i thought, oil level must be low. Checked the oil level and its fine, but added in a drop more anyway. Its still continuing to flash the oil light - its more of a flicker, flickering on and off. Now it's not leaking oil, as I have
• Washing your own car.......? 17 Jun 2008 (Forum)
  car park the following day when I was complimented on the appearance and had to admit it wasn't my doing for once. Given the abundance of Eastern European car valeters doing such a fine job for so little money (SWMBO didn't get a penny by the way), does anyone absolutely insist on always doing
• Peugeot 207 (2006 - ) - 2006 1.4 16v S90 - Best way of selling? 26 Mar 2008 (Forum)
  I bought a 56 plate Peugeot 207 last October. Since buying it I had to replace the side panel (someone drove into me) and am now having to deal with further repairs due to a 4 wheel drive vehicle driving into the 207 whilst parked. I imagine the car will look absolutely fine after a trip to a body
• Possible write off - where do we stand? 4 Dec 2006 (Forum)
  Hi guys - The wife's 10 year old Skoda was damaged some weeks ago when parked outside our house. We reported the incident to our insurers who arranged a nearby repair centre to assess the damage but we decided not to get any repair done until the other party's insurers admitted liability and we
• Handbrake? What handbrake? Ford Focus 25 Mar 2005 (Forum)
  Morning all, The car is running fine except for a slight handbrake problem. The handbrake won't hold the car on anything but the gentlest gradient and even then I don't trust it. It's not as bad when parked as I always have and always will leave it in gear but I negotiate a lot of traffic
• Peugeot 504 22 Feb 2005 (Forum)
  Anyone remember these fine old workhorses? Saw one on the way to work, a K reg which must make it about 1972 and one of the first registered in the UK I should think. It was parked in a layby and the driver changing one of the front tyres. What surprised me more than anything was that although
• My Budget announcement 2 Dec 2004 (Forum)
  of benefit in kind relating to company cars. A 50% increase in Road Tax for long bendy buses as they are too long. All fines relating to vehicle offences to be added to the transport Budget to benefit law abiding transport users. The surplus of Congestion Charge fees should be spent on improved roads
• Free 1965 Rover 3 litre 1 Dec 2002 (Forum)
  I've put this in Technical matters because it will only interest the technical minded. The car is near Winchester and has been standing 18 months. The engine runs fine. The body is a bit rusty but not too bad. There is starring on the bonnet. The rear bumper is rusted through. The inside is very
• Ford Focus Estate 2007 TDI 1.8L - How do I keep rodents out of engine compartment 12 Aug 2019 (Forum)
  (otherwise bye-bye a really great car). How do I now ensure that this doesn't happen again ? The car is parked outside in the drive and fairly close to a hedge beyond which is a field. I now park it a good 5 feet or so from the hedge and have put rat poison under the car. Various online remedies
• Renault Megane II (2002 - 2008) - 05 1.9 Intermittent Electrical Fault 3 Jul 2009 (Forum)
  Wife's car has started to have the above. On Tuesday, car was fine until having parked. Then a 1/2 hour later, tried to start car then but after pushing button, would not tick over or fire up at all, stop would come on with electrical fault message. Further attemtps to start car were fruitless
• 306 TD problems 8 Oct 2003 (Forum)
  I have a couple of problems with my 306TD 1996 'N'. 1. It struggles starting sometimes, but once it is going it's fine. I have replaced the glow plugs, tried injector cleaner but nothing seems to work. After a failed start (Won't fire up after engine has turned over serveral times) I had to switch
• Xantia Estate 22 Jan 2002 (Forum)
  seems sensitive to the engine revs - i.e. at tick-over in traffic its not very cold, but driving along its fine. Should I worry ? I'm likely to have the car for about 4 weeks, so if it won't break in that time, I don't care. Since I drove it, and parked it, for the first time last night, why don't
• Renault Megane 99/T - Central locking not listening..? 25 Jul 2023 (Forum)
  Apologies for the long story for context. Pierre needed to be parked up after a water leak (sunroof drains blocked).  Everything was fine apart from the small lake in the rear footwell... so we had the carpet out, left it to dry out with the rice and newspaper etc. While
• Off to Spain this summer? A couple of reminders. 22 Jun 2023 (Forum)
  Beware that summer is a great season for collecting fines from errant motorists, and Spain and the UK not only allow licence exchanges (recently reintroduced) but also exchange driver data so that fines can be pursued. There are fixed and mobile cameras aplenty, and even traffic police
• Citroen Xsara Picasso - Clunking Noise 17 May 2020 (Forum)
  Hello. I have a Citroen Xsara Picasso 1.6 petrol 2010 plate. In April i noticed a clunk whenever i steered moderately/ hard to the right, ie slow speed turning and parking. To my untrained ear it sounded like the driver-side suspension. I took the car to a garage
• Citroen Xsara Picasso - Clunking Noise 18 May 2019 (Forum)
  Hello. I have a Citroen Xsara Picasso 1.6 petrol 2010 plate. In April i noticed a clunk whenever i steered moderately/ hard to the right,  ie slow speed turning and parking. To my untrained ear it sounded like the driver-side suspension. I took the car